CxF brings dynamic color communication to fashion industry

30 May '08

3 min read

“Our design intent with CxF is to provide a base that allows transition of color from concept to output in diverse workflows, while retaining the possibility of comparing back to a common and unambiguous color specification,” says Dr. Agarwal.

“CxF will facilitate color consistency by simply taking the guesswork out of color decisions and ensuring that all critical information is included. CxF can ensure that what the designer intended is what the client receives on final output. We expect the implementation of CxF to result in efficiency gains by making verifiable color reproduction easier across the process,” he concludes.

CxF takes advantage of the openness and universal acceptance of XML (Extensible Markup Language) and therefore can be seamlessly integrated into any Internet-based workflow. Through the use of XML, CxF presents self-identifying color data and enables a flexible communication mechanism. CxF is able to seamlessly integrate data from other color communication methods, including ICC color profiles, CIE-Lab, XYZ, RGB, CMYK, PANTONE, RAL, NCS, Toyo, HKS, etc.

X-Rite will deploy CxF as a connector that permits interoperability across industries, across media and across locations. To this end, the company is committed to working with partners and to making a set of base tools around CxF freely available.

Every software vendor implementing and supporting CxF will be able to easily extend the basic feature set to its needs for a new application without affecting the general usability. End users will also be able to extend and customize the format to allow inclusion of specialized information.

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